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o_simardcasanova

@o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social

Economist, Statistician, Writer

I write en 🇫🇷 and in 🇺🇸 on:
· Economics & Environment
· Critical Thinking
· United States
· Content Creation
· Transportation & Cities
· Statistics & Data
And more!

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o_simardcasanova, to random
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In case you’re wondering…

TERFs are defending ’s decision to host and monetize literal Nazi content

It says it all

o_simardcasanova,
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A few of them heckled me on Notes, asking me if, and I quote, I am a "communist”

First of all, no, I am absolutely not a communist

Second of all, conflating "I don't want to share a space with Nazis" and "I only hate Nazis because I'm a communist" shows a level of brain rot that perfectly embodies how detached from reality the terminally online far right is

Are these people even aware that liberal, non-communist democracies fought against the Nazis during WWII?

Ultimate brain rot

hello, to threads
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In response to @potus enabling federation via #Threads the other day, a number of people asked: why can't the White House self-host their own Mastodon server?

Our writer @deadsuperhero dives in with some thoughts on the current hurdles

https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/us-government-hosted-fediverse/

o_simardcasanova,
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@weddige @hello @deadsuperhero There is also an instance hosted by the French government: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr

o_simardcasanova, to fediverse
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The Report by @laurenshof is a great resource to keep up with how social media is changing.

What I especially like compared to more mainstream coverage is how Laurens keeps track of less "shiny" projects. Those are a fertile ground for new innovations.

https://fediversereport.com/

HilliTech, to random
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I'm starting to think people that claim to like the fediverse dont understand the point. We want to be able to follow Threads accounts here without having to have a Threads account. That's the whole point.

No single entity is in control of social media. That's the glory of federation.

Blocking major companies from the fediverse will be the death of the concept. Don't silo yourselves in fits of hate and segregation or you're no better than the things you claim to protest.
https://techhub.social/@HilliTech/112207853697301125

o_simardcasanova,
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@joshwayne @Jonathanglick @AAKL It’s probably part of the strategy. In my opinion, an important reason why they do this is to come clean in front of regulators, the EU in particular.

I’m not saying that as a criticism. Corporations have no souls, they just respond to their environment. In this case, the regulatory environment seems to work exactly as expected.

o_simardcasanova, to mastodon
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By following a bunch of photography oriented hashtags, it turns out that is providing me a significantly better experience than ever did

Good stuff!

o_simardcasanova, to twitter
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eviscerated every single tool I used to monitor

was the remaining one, and now it’s gone

I don’t have the time to rebuild my Xitter monitoring system again, and Xitter is dying anyway

But preventing power users from accessing your platform is a hell of an economic model

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/twitter-front-end-nitter-dies-as-musk-wins-war-against-third-party-services/

o_simardcasanova, to mastodon
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The more I experiment with and more broadly, the more I am convinced that it’s possible to build a replacement on the

Patreon is a closed platform, but it’s a key tool for many content creators to make a living out of their work: writers, video makers, podcasters, and so on

A Fediverse alternative would basically bridges a payment system with tiered access based on payment status

Even with , I think it could already be done!

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o_simardcasanova, to random
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I've been using this feature for a couple of weeks now, on my French-speaking account (also hosted on mastodon.social)

In the upcoming Mastodon 4.2, you can assign an account to a list, and toggle said list so that the posts that appear on it don't show up in your Home feed

On top of full-text search, this is another great addition to Mastodon!

o_simardcasanova, to mastodon
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The ratio the good people of Threads is giving to Marco Rubio is so hard that it's probably illegal in several countries.

Whatever the differences between , or , users on all three platforms have the same rejection of the far right and its disgusting nonsense. I love that.

(As usual, reply guys and antisocial behavior will receive an instant-block.)

o_simardcasanova, to meta
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Another horrendous decision by about : they will test paying users for posts based on their "performance".

This creates a strong incentive to publish low quality content. This is exactly what happened on when the platform introduced its revenue sharing system: since then, the platform has been overwhelmed by grifters who publish the most horrendous posts to go viral.

Another sign that Meta is completely out of its depth when it comes to Threads.

https://www.threads.net/@mattnavarra/post/C5T0IVFo9I9

o_simardcasanova, to meta
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Just read a engineer claiming on that Meta hasn’t implemented a specific feature due to "Meta’s strong commitment to privacy".

I laughed, to be honest.

o_simardcasanova, to bluesky
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“Try not to wildly misrepresent ” challenge, and so far, a massive number of people are catastrophically failing the challenge.

o_simardcasanova, to fediverse
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I just realized that being compatible with (and possibly / at a later date) means that it will probably be possible to tag somebody directly in a newsletter post, via their or profile for instance.

I love this idea.

o_simardcasanova, to mastodon
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Okay , I think this one will resonate with many of you.

has been recently criticised by many creators: they have a lot of followers, but very few of them actually see their posts.

Instagram's answer? "Stop crying".

Don't take my word for it, see for yourself here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C53oD86O8c0/

Considering is run by the same people, I'm increasingly convinced that will use Threads to exploit the free labor of creators in the same way it does with Instagram.

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o_simardcasanova,
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Why do you think Meta is trying to distance itself from news and politics?

It's probably not financially interesting, for many reasons.

But there may be another issue at play: power. Media are big corporations. Politicians have power. They can fight back, and inflict real damage to Meta.

Indie photographers or writers? What can they do, except, and I quote, "cry"?

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o_simardcasanova,
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I have seen this discourse from time to time on here: people being horribly condescending about "content creators".

What this condescending tone utterly fails to capture is that many of these "content creators" are independent workers trying to use social media to make a living.

Meta is not their employer. But they are extremely dependent on the decisions Meta takes. And the power relationship between creators and Meta is, by a wide margin, in favor of Meta.

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o_simardcasanova,
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Meta's strategy is fundamentally exploitative. Meta makes money on the back of content creators, and their free labor.

Adam Mosseri himself said it a few weeks ago: if Meta had to compensate content creators for their work, it would make Instagram financially unviable.

That being said, the open disdain and the gaslighting is something else.

It clearly shows that Meta believes that it can quite literally bully content creators, and get away with it. Probably because it's true.

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o_simardcasanova, to twitter French
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I just deactivated, probably for good, my French-speaking account.

I’m ready to build the next phase of my online activity on , and .

Onwards!

o_simardcasanova, to mastodon
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Thanks to Tusks by @bardi, I have decided to experiment a . Over time, I will compile great tools, apps, and services in a single, long thread.

I will update the Mega Thread every time I find a new tool that I find worth mentionning, either third-party or first-party.

For the first post, I want to showcase… Tusks, obviously! It’s an excellent app for macOS, iOS, and iPad to compose and update threads.

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https://thirdculture.app/tusks

o_simardcasanova, to random
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In Gaza, Israel is engineering a famine.

In Ukraine, Russia is specifically targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure.

In both cases, civilians are targeted for no military reasons. Which is a war crime.

The indictment of Netanyahu and Gallant by the ICC is a logical consequence issue.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

o_simardcasanova, to random French
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À Gaza, Israël organise une famine.

En Ukraine, la Russie cible spécifiquement civils et infrastructures civiles.

Dans les deux cas, les civils sont ciblés sans justification militaire. Ce qui constitue un crime de guerre.

L'inculpation de Netanyahu et de Gallant par la Cour Pénale Internationale est une issue logique.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state

o_simardcasanova,
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La Russie a violé le droit international en Ukraine et continue de le faire. Des violations qui doivent être sévèrement punies.

Israël est l'allié de nombreux pays occidentaux. Mais le droit international s'applique à tous, y compris aux démocraties.

Mêmes actes, mêmes conséquences.

o_simardcasanova, to random
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I’m increasingly convinced that defederation of Threads will backfires against the instances that defederate.

There is a vocal, but small, minority of users who have very strict opinions on Threads, the Fediverse and Mastodon. But they’re a minority.

The more Threads will federate, the more users who aren’t part of this minority but have to live with the consequences of its demands will ask for a different direction.
https://social.coop/@jsit/112207362680439053

o_simardcasanova, to bluesky
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Let’s start another , this time on upcoming and new features on .

Megathreads are open ended threads where I share relevant information about a specific topic.

Bluesky will soon have proper DMs, video, better auth (via OAuth), better custom feeds, and even more anti-harassment features.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-07-2024-product-roadmap

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o_simardcasanova,
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Not a feature, but an interesting post by Jay Graber, the CEO of .

How involved was before he left the board? Not that much, it turns out.

It has always been misleading to present Bluesky as the “platform of Jack Dorsey”. It’s also sexist, as once again, the work of a talented woman was wrongfully attributed to a very mediocre man. The tech version of the Matilda effect.

https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3krxdfy6koc22

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